PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Demian Maia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Wayne (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Wayne's choice of entrance music: Bucktown. Demian Maia has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Maia
vs
Wayne

190 cm
18
185 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

177 cm
22
180 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Demian Maia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, John Wayne!
The judges for this bout are James Ackerman, Andrew Berry and Donald Grub.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A chopping leg kick lands by Wayne.

Wayne gets in close and instigates a clinch.

Wayne escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Maia misses with a takedown attempt - Wayne sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Maia.
Nice takedown defense from Wayne. No joy for Maia on that attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Demian Maia. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Wayne closes the distance and pushes Maia back into the cage.
Wayne landing knees to the body.
Wayne lands an elbow inside that Maia shrugs off.
Wayne unloads a knee to the mid-section.

Wayne pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Wayne lands a head kick!
Maia is breathing heavily.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Wayne clinches up against the cage.

Wayne pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Today's fight clock is brought to you by... OOOH that's a huge shot by Wayne! Maia is in big trouble here - the ref steps in to save him and this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). John Wayne!